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An organic luminescence is constituted by a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, and an organic compound layer disposed between the pair of electrodes. The organic compound layer comprises a compound represented by the following formula (I):wherein R1 to R6 independently denote a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, with the proviso that each pair of R1 and R2, R3 and R4, an R5 and R6 or of R1 and R6, R2 and R3, and R4 and R5 may be connected to each other to form a fused ring structure.

To provide a phosphor having an emission characteristic such that a peak wavelength of light emission is in a range from 580 to 680 nm, and having a high emission intensity, and having a flat excitation band with high efficiency for excitation light in a broad wavelength range from ultraviolet to visible light (wavelength range from 250 nm to 550 nm). For example, Ca₃N₂(2N), AlN(3N), Si₃N₄(3N), Eu₂O₃(3N) are prepared, and after weighing and mixing a predetermined amount of each raw material, raw materials are fired at 1500° C. for 6 hours, thus obtaining the phosphor including a product phase expressed by a composition formula CaAlSiN₃:Eu and having an X-ray diffraction pattern satisfying a predetermined pattern.

The present invention discloses a backlight including external electrode fluorescent lamps and a method for driving the backlight. The backlight includes fluorescent lamps having external electrodes made of an electrically conductive material for wrapping the outer peripheral surfaces including edge cross-sections on both ends of a glass tube with a layer of fluorescent substance applied thereon. The backlight is constructed in a manner that a plurality of such fluorescent lamps are installed at the outer portions of a plastic light guide, and an alternating current type power source is applied from the outside to the fluorescent lamps by installing a plurality of the fluorescent lamps between a reflecting plate and a diffusing plate and electrically connecting them with one another. The backlight of the present invention is driven by a square wave from a switching inverter, and is characterized by the use of an overshooting waveform and a self-discharge effect favorable to an initial discharge, thereby driving it using a low frequency of several dozen kHz and thus realizing high luminance and high efficiency.

To provide a phosphor having a broad emission spectrum in a range of blue color (in a peak wavelength range from 400 nm to 500 nm), having a broad flat excitation band in a near ultraviolet/ultraviolet range, and having excellent emission efficiency and emission intensity/luminance. The phosphor is given as a general composition formula expressed by MmAaBbOoNn:Z, (where element M is the element having bivalent valency, element A is the element having tervalent valency, element B is the element having tetravalent valency, O is oxygen, N is nitrogen, and element Z is more than one kind of element acting as an activator), satisfying 5.0<(a+b)/m<9.0, 0≦a/m≦2.0, 0≦o≦n, n=2/3m+a+4/3b−2/3o, and has an emission spectrum with a maximum peak in the wavelength range from 400 nm to 500 nm under an excitation of the light in a wavelength range from 250 nm to 430 nm.

An organic EL device of the invention comprises a hole injecting electrode, an electron injecting electrode and at least one organic layer interleaved between them. The electron injecting electrode is a film of an aluminum lithium alloy formed by a sputtering technique and comprising 0.4 to 14 at % of lithium. The electron injecting electrode further includes on a side of the electron injecting electrode that is not opposite to the organic layer a protective electrode comprising at least one of aluminum, aluminum and a transition metal except titanium, titanium, and titanium nitride.

To provide a phosphor having an emission spectrum with a broad peak in a range from green color to yellow color, having a broad and flat excitation band capable of using lights of broad range from near ultraviolet/ultraviolet to blue lights as excitation lights, and having excellent emission efficiency and luminance. The problem is solved by providing the phosphor expressed by a general composition formula MmAaBbOoNn:Z (where element M is one or more kinds of elements having bivalent valency, element A is one or more kinds of elements having tervalent valency, element B is one or more kinds of elements having tetravalent valency, O is oxygen, N is nitrogen, and element Z is one or more kinds of elements acting as the activator.), satisfying 4.0<(a+b)/m<7.0, a/m=0.5, b/a>2.5, n>o, n=2/3m+a+4/3b−2/3o, and having an emission spectrum with a peak wavelength of 500 nm to 650 nm when excited by light in a wavelength range from 300 nm to 500 nm.

The PDP disclosed herein has a plurality of thin wire electrodes extending in the row direction, which are laid out in such a way as to widen the interval at a fixed ratio (2 times) from the discharge gap section toward the non-discharge gap section as well as to shorten the lengths of those row direction thin wire electrodes in steps with a fixed difference (approximately 20 mumxleft/right) from the cell's vertical center axis toward the partition walls. They are connected by thin wire electrodes that extend in the column direction to form antenna-shaped plane electrodes and the thin wire electrodes that extend in the column direction from the center of the antenna-shaped plane electrodes and the bus electrodes that extend in the row direction are connected to form a sustaining electrode pair (scan electrode and common electrode).

To present a green- to yellow-emitting phosphor whereby a light-emitting device having high color rendering properties and high luminance can be obtained, a light-emitting device employing such a phosphor, and an image display device and a lighting system, containing such a light-emitting device. A phosphor made of a compound represented by the following formula (I), which comprises, as matrix, a compound of a garnet structure and which contains, as a luminescent center ion, a metal element in the matrix:

M¹_aM²_bX_cM³_dM⁴₃O_e  (I)

wherein M¹ is Mg and/or Zn, M² is a bivalent metal element excluding Mg and Zn, X is a metal element as a luminescent center ion composed mainly of Ce, M³ is a trivalent metal element excluding X, M⁴ is a tetravalent metal element, and a, b, c, d and e are numbers satisfying the following formulae, respectively:

0.001≦a≦0.5

2.5≦b≦3.3

0.005≦c≦0.5

1.5≦d≦2.3

e={(a+b)×2+(c+d)×3+12}/2.

A lighting device (1) comprises a light source (2) and a lens (3, 23, 33, 43, 53, 63) positioned in front of the light source (2). The lens (3, 23, 33, 43, 53, 63) is provided with a light entrance surface on a side facing the light source (2) and a light exit surface (14, 38) on a side remote from the light source (2). The lens (3, 23, 33, 43, 53, 63) comprises a number of strip-shaped interconnected elongated light guiding elements (4, 24, 34, 54, 64), of which first ends (7, 27, 37, 57) and spaced apart second ends (5, 25, 35, 55, 65) comprise the light entrance surface and light exit surface, respectively. Light beams emitted by the light source (2) are transmitted by total internal reflection in the elongated light guiding elements (4, 24, 34, 54, 64) from the first ends (7, 27, 37, 57) to the spaced apart seconds ends (5, 25, 35, 55, 65).

To provide an organic electroluminescent device having excellent durability and having high luminous efficiency and luminance, which can be effectively utilized for surface light sources such as full color displays, backlights, and illuminating light sources and light source arrays such as printers, the organic electroluminescent device includes at least one organic compound layer containing a light emitting layer between a pair of electrodes, wherein the light emitting layer contains a host material and a phosphorescent material; the host material is a five-coordinate metal complex; and the phosphorescent material is at least one Ir complex having a specific partial structure.

A prism sheet is provided for making it possible to ensure high brightness and a wide viewing angle characteristic in a state integrated with a reflective polarizing function film. A prism sheet (7) is composed of a plurality of lens units (7a) which each have substantially triangle shapes in cross-section and extend along their ridgelines and are formed in parallel at least on a surface. The prism has such a structure that it is put between a pair of polarizers disposed in a cross Nicol arrangement to make its ridge line consistent with a transmission axis of either of the polarizers. The total transmittance of light beams incident from the external surface on the shape arrangement side of such structured prism sheet (7) is not larger than 2% of the total transmittance of light beams through such a parallel Nicol structure of a pair of polarizers that no prim sheet is put between them.

An object of the present invention is to provide a simply configured liquid crystal display device capable of providing a high front luminance when light obliquely enters a micro lens array. The liquid crystal display device comprises: a pair of polarizing plates which sandwich a pair of substrates; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched by the pair of substrates; transmission openings formed in a pixel to limit the quantity of light which penetrates the liquid crystal layer; condensing elements formed on the side of one of the substrates, opposite to the side on which the liquid crystal layer is disposed, to condense light to the transmission openings; and a planar light-emitting element which emits light to be applied to the condensing elements; wherein the light to be emitted from the planar light-emitting element forms a certain angle with respect to its perpendicular when emitted; and wherein the position of the transmission opening is relatively shifted with respect to that of the condensing element so as to increase the quantity of light which penetrates the transmission opening, in association with the light-emitting direction of the planar light-emitting element.